Jose Mourinho

[fuzzylogic]

Limited as a football, but an incredible destroyer who had a fire burning inside him for every fight - sadly that died with his brother.
Think people should remember as well that Spurs weren't much of a club in Palacios' life time up until the point he joined us.

I’m glad we limited his time as playing as a football. We probably saved ourselves millions in legal fees by using him as a footballer instead for 2 years. For 65 games the two teams kicked me around for 90 mins every week yer honour. And I still won fuck all ?

 

[buckley]

Regarding Palacios and any other player that feels he should be at a bigger club am I the only that feels that someone going around with this thought in your head you have to question whether they are giving their best or is their mind somewhere else .
Of course most players from that part of the world have a dream to play for Barca or Real .
It seems I am alone in thinking that a player nowadays could play for two or three clubs it to me seems that when he spouts how he felt "I should play for a bigger club than = insert the name of any club " it does not sit well with me you can feel that but spouting it in the newspapers makes me feel let down and made to feel my club did not really matter .
I think a club that pays your wages every week whether a premier club or a 2nd division club does not need you spouting about how you " should have played for a bigger club " . A little respect would not go amiss or am I alone in finding his views disrespectful it seems so .
You only have to look at Eriksen a player who felt he should play for Barca or Real to see how a player performs when his mind is somewhere else . His last 18 months he had his head up his own arse ..

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

The rot set in last season and it might take 1/2 departures before we start to improve.

Summer Transfer Window 2018. It was like planning a small gathering round your house when your mum and dad had gone to Majorca for a week, and the girl you really, really liked was staying over. You tingled all week at the thought of it; springtime in your loins.

Then she got ill and cancelled. You were devastated. At least you still had your mates and all that beer. But then the gathering was gatecrashed by your local Hell’s Angels chapter. They wrecked everything. Pissed in the tropical fish tank, ripped light fittings off ceilings, took turns laying secret turds about the house.

And that’s where we are now. That’s what Summer Transfer Window 2018 did to us. It turned us into a wreck of a house. And even now we’re still finding those turds

 

[carpediem991]

I just remember one of the last games Wilson had for us and i monitored him closely in the stadium because he was throughout attrocious. He missplaced a 5m pass about 5m.

Shame, there was a player in there. Cheers to stoke for the money though. Missing them, Swansea or Sunderland to take our trash. No wonder they are where they are lol.

 

[ClintEastwould]

I know it was just a 4 minute clip and I know it led to the goal for dele but it fuckin annoyed me that when Vertonghen had the ball there was zero movement or a willingness from the midfield to receive a short pass so he ended up playing a long diagonal to aurier

There is no way JM would tell the midfield to go hiding when the centre backs have the ball. Surely not

To be very honest all evidence leads to the conclusion that this might be exactly what he does.

 

[Gassin's finest]

RE: Defensive midfielders. The 6, or destroyer, has been a vital part of any successful team for at least 30 years now. Probably longer. The position was initially created to counter the original false 9 in the old WM system. So no surprise that our best teams in the 21st century have had one.

Palacios was the first proper destroyer we had, and he was brilliant. Plugged the gaps, stopped the attacks, and recycled the ball. No nonsense. Sarge was brilliant, and what happened to his family was tragic.

 

[spursfan77]

Worth a read. Although I don’t think much will change for unless we learn how to keep clean sheets. Fortunately with an attack back we might be able to score goals. We might need to score at least two a game.

In March, Mourinho was doomed to fail - this new world may favour him

Mourinho is optimistic, his players are engaged - will these nine games finally vindicate him and Daniel Levy's decision?

theathletic.com

 

[danielneeds]

Worth a read. Although I don’t think much will change for unless we learn how to keep clean sheets. Fortunately with an attack back we might be able to score goals. We might need to score at least two a game.

In March, Mourinho was doomed to fail - this new world may favour him

Mourinho is optimistic, his players are engaged - will these nine games finally vindicate him and Daniel Levy's decision?

theathletic.com

It's a heart-warming build up, but let's face it, if we lose to United the whole mini-season will be nothing but meaningless friendlies.

 

[Monkey boy]

It's a heart-warming build up, but let's face it, if we lose to United the whole mini-season will be nothing but meaningless friendlies.

which could be good for us in the long run as we can use it as a proper pre season build up for next season. Try out new formations, give players ample rest and recovery periods and be fit a raring to go come August or whenever the new restart is scheduled for. This is what Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Leicester and all the others not involved in a relegation battle will be doing.

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Worth a read. Although I don’t think much will change for unless we learn how to keep clean sheets. Fortunately with an attack back we might be able to score goals. We might need to score at least two a game.

In March, Mourinho was doomed to fail - this new world may favour him

Mourinho is optimistic, his players are engaged - will these nine games finally vindicate him and Daniel Levy's decision?

theathletic.com

I think the fact we have our actual attack back will help us just as much in defense as it will in attack. We were conceding so many before the break because we had literally nobody capable of holding the ball further up the pitch. We've got a near full squad to pick from now.

 

[Spartanspurs]

I think the fact we have our actual attack back will help us just as much in defense as it will in attack. We were conceding so many before the break because we had literally nobody capable of holding the ball further up the pitch. We've got a near full squad to pick from now.

I do agree with this. That and the fact other teams can't now throw everything at us with little fear of us actually doing any damage on the counter.

 

[spursfan77]

I think the fact we have our actual attack back will help us just as much in defense as it will in attack. We were conceding so many before the break because we had literally nobody capable of holding the ball further up the pitch. We've got a near full squad to pick from now.

Yeah I agree with you. I meant to post the full article but I couldn't from my phone (The Athletic seem to have stopped you doing so), its out of character positive about us from jack tit brooke....so he's probably just doing it to set us up for a fall.

The last article is pretty much how I feel, although I think the Man U game is definitely key. Lose that and there is little hope. Here's the article now anyway:

Jose Mourinho sometimes likes to conjure an atmosphere of gloom — but not right now. Even in private, Mourinho is upbeat and confident about Tottenham’s prospects for the Premier League restart.
This fanless mini-season, a stretch of football no one could even have imagined when Mourinho was appointed back in November, gives him a shot at a vindication that looked almost impossible when Spurs last kicked a ball in March. It is the chance to realign the delicate balancing act that is Tottenham Hotspur.
That is how high the stakes are over the next nine games. This is about more than just whether Tottenham will be in the Champions League next season, whatever that competition will look like. It is about the decision to replace Mauricio Pochettino with Mourinho seven months ago — the biggest gamble of Daniel Levy’s career — and whether it will pay off. Levy does not currently hold a winning hand. Spurs are eighth. But he still has plenty of outs.
Ultimately, it is about Mourinho himself. Remember that he came to Spurs with his reputation damaged. Those third-season collapses and Christmas sackings, in almost identical circumstances at Chelsea and Manchester United, risked staining him as a manager whose methods did not work anymore, whose approach of provoking his players did more harm than good with this generation in youngsters. The mystery of Mourinho’s modern effectiveness has still not been solved.
In March, just before coronavirus stopped all football for three months, it felt as if things were drifting away from Mourinho. Spurs had a good February, grinding out wins, not least against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. But they won none of their last six matches, crashing out of the Champions League and FA Cup, and taking one point from three league games.
After their last league fixture — a 1-1 draw at Burnley — Mourinho savaged Tanguy Ndombele on TV and in the press conference. Spurs “didn’t have a midfield” and it was Ndombele who took the fall. It was classic Mourinho, the same dose of “confrontational leadership” that the young players had rejected in his last two jobs.
This time at Spurs, there were plenty of players who were taken aback by Mourinho’s attack. They were shocked that the manager would be so critical in public. There was a real feeling of unrest in the camp. Out of the cups and drifting down the league, things were only going to get worse, too. Forget about third-season dips, it felt as if this Mourinho tenure might never get off the ground.
This critique of Mourinho was about his approach, not just the results. The results were bad in March but it felt unfair to blame the manager too much. When he took the job in November, he had inherited a harder situation than any he had faced in his career to date.
This was a team that was physically and mentally exhausted by five and a half years of Pochettino. Losing the Champions League final last May was a gut punch. They had been running on empty all season and Pochettino even admitted last month that it was right to sack him when Levy did. Mourinho took over a squad that had aged quicker than anyone had realised and had not been refreshed. He had to get rid of players: Christian Eriksen and Danny Rose left in January and Jan Vertonghen will go this summer. That is 830 games’ worth of Spurs experience heading out of the building.
On top of that, Mourinho faced an injury crisis to the players he had hoped to count on. Harry Kane tore a hamstring at Southampton on New Year’s Day. That same game, Moussa Sissoko, last year’s player of the season, injured knee ligaments, requiring surgery. In February, Son Heung-min broke his arm at Villa Park, so Mourinho’s only option was to run Lucas Moura into the ground as the team’s makeshift centre-forward.
Lucas has played all 26 of Mourinho’s games in charge, starting 23. No image better sums up Mourinho’s reign so far than a long ball being hit from the back, Lucas leaping into the air to try to win the header, only to miss out to a centre-back eight inches taller than him. That is all Spurs had in those final weeks of the regular season. And in the alternative timeline without coronavirus, that would have been the story of April, too, as Spurs’ campaign drifted into nothing.
Had that happened, Mourinho could legitimately have pointed at his circumstances and got himself off the hook because no manager could have walked into this club mid-season, suffered those injuries, and still guided the team to Champions League qualification.
But none of that has happened. Coronavirus has been Mourinho’s deus ex machina, stopping time, rescuing him from a situation in which he was doomed to fail and then placing him into another world entirely. In this new world, Mourinho might just find his resources and powers replenished. Results were never going to save him… but now, they might.
The Tottenham squad, for a start, is in a much better shape now than it was in March. Kane, Son and Sissoko are all recovered from their injuries. Kane now has weeks of training behind him and Mourinho has been impressed with his attitude and application. Wherever he is in terms of match fitness, none of his opponents will have played a proper football match for 14 weeks either. No longer will Hugo Lloris and Toby Alderweireld hit long balls over Lucas’ head. This time, the ball will stick.
But the most important man of all will be Mourinho himself. When he showed up in November, there was a hope that the sheer size of him, his profile and his achievements, would be enough to rally all the players. Here was a manager who was bigger than the club, a global celebrity, and a far more enthusiastic star of the upcoming Amazon documentary than Pochettino could have been. But in reality, the pieces were so scattered that even the force of Mourinho’s personality could not magnetise them back together.
The world is different now and there is something about this mini-season that might suit Mourinho perfectly. The strangeness should not bother him. He is a manager who thrives on an underdog story and a siege mentality, even when he is in charge of some of the best players in the world. He is not a Jurgen Klopp or even a Pochettino, who builds a team of relentless energy, the players and the crowd sustaining one another. Sheffield United or Wolves might find themselves lost without the support of their fans but Mourinho’s Spurs should not.
Mourinho has managed and won all over the world. He has two Serie A titles, winning in many of those near-empty municipal bowls dotted all over Italy. He has won the Champions League twice, taking his teams all over Europe and coming back with results. Suddenly the bio-secure Premier League — no fans, no mascots, no ball boys — might not feel quite so unusual. The evidence of Spain and Germany’s restarts so far is that the teams with quality and experience are cleaning up. Why shouldn’t Tottenham do the same?
This is why Mourinho is optimistic now, and why the mood at the club has completely changed. The complaints and excuses of March have dissipated, for now. Mourinho is in full motivation mode, geeing up his players, telling them they can win, trying to provide that magnetising force that did not work in the winter.
At times this year, it has felt as if all the unity of the peak Pochettino years has been worn away, with individual agendas taking over from the shared purpose of the past. Players, underpaid compared to their peers, have got bored, got tired or left. The most popular manager in the club’s modern history was sacked. The club, hit by coronavirus, has had to look after itself. But now, in these next nine games, they have a new project to rally around, and a manager to lead them there.
The path ahead is narrow but clear. Beat Manchester United, Sheffield United and Arsenal, and Spurs will make ground on all their rivals. In their other games, their superior quality should be enough. Champions League football for next season is still within reach. And with it, an unlikely vindication for Levy’s appointment and for Mourinho’s continued powers.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Yeah I agree with you. I meant to post the full article but I couldn't from my phone (The Athletic seem to have stopped you doing so), its out of character positive about us from jack tit brooke....so he's probably just doing it to set us up for a fall.

The last article is pretty much how I feel, although I think the Man U game is definitely key. Lose that and there is little hope. Here's the article now anyway:

Jose Mourinho sometimes likes to conjure an atmosphere of gloom — but not right now. Even in private, Mourinho is upbeat and confident about Tottenham’s prospects for the Premier League restart.
This fanless mini-season, a stretch of football no one could even have imagined when Mourinho was appointed back in November, gives him a shot at a vindication that looked almost impossible when Spurs last kicked a ball in March. It is the chance to realign the delicate balancing act that is Tottenham Hotspur.
That is how high the stakes are over the next nine games. This is about more than just whether Tottenham will be in the Champions League next season, whatever that competition will look like. It is about the decision to replace Mauricio Pochettino with Mourinho seven months ago — the biggest gamble of Daniel Levy’s career — and whether it will pay off. Levy does not currently hold a winning hand. Spurs are eighth. But he still has plenty of outs.
Ultimately, it is about Mourinho himself. Remember that he came to Spurs with his reputation damaged. Those third-season collapses and Christmas sackings, in almost identical circumstances at Chelsea and Manchester United, risked staining him as a manager whose methods did not work anymore, whose approach of provoking his players did more harm than good with this generation in youngsters. The mystery of Mourinho’s modern effectiveness has still not been solved.
In March, just before coronavirus stopped all football for three months, it felt as if things were drifting away from Mourinho. Spurs had a good February, grinding out wins, not least against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. But they won none of their last six matches, crashing out of the Champions League and FA Cup, and taking one point from three league games.
After their last league fixture — a 1-1 draw at Burnley — Mourinho savaged Tanguy Ndombele on TV and in the press conference. Spurs “didn’t have a midfield” and it was Ndombele who took the fall. It was classic Mourinho, the same dose of “confrontational leadership” that the young players had rejected in his last two jobs.
This time at Spurs, there were plenty of players who were taken aback by Mourinho’s attack. They were shocked that the manager would be so critical in public. There was a real feeling of unrest in the camp. Out of the cups and drifting down the league, things were only going to get worse, too. Forget about third-season dips, it felt as if this Mourinho tenure might never get off the ground.
This critique of Mourinho was about his approach, not just the results. The results were bad in March but it felt unfair to blame the manager too much. When he took the job in November, he had inherited a harder situation than any he had faced in his career to date.
This was a team that was physically and mentally exhausted by five and a half years of Pochettino. Losing the Champions League final last May was a gut punch. They had been running on empty all season and Pochettino even admitted last month that it was right to sack him when Levy did. Mourinho took over a squad that had aged quicker than anyone had realised and had not been refreshed. He had to get rid of players: Christian Eriksen and Danny Rose left in January and Jan Vertonghen will go this summer. That is 830 games’ worth of Spurs experience heading out of the building.
On top of that, Mourinho faced an injury crisis to the players he had hoped to count on. Harry Kane tore a hamstring at Southampton on New Year’s Day. That same game, Moussa Sissoko, last year’s player of the season, injured knee ligaments, requiring surgery. In February, Son Heung-min broke his arm at Villa Park, so Mourinho’s only option was to run Lucas Moura into the ground as the team’s makeshift centre-forward.
Lucas has played all 26 of Mourinho’s games in charge, starting 23. No image better sums up Mourinho’s reign so far than a long ball being hit from the back, Lucas leaping into the air to try to win the header, only to miss out to a centre-back eight inches taller than him. That is all Spurs had in those final weeks of the regular season. And in the alternative timeline without coronavirus, that would have been the story of April, too, as Spurs’ campaign drifted into nothing.
Had that happened, Mourinho could legitimately have pointed at his circumstances and got himself off the hook because no manager could have walked into this club mid-season, suffered those injuries, and still guided the team to Champions League qualification.
But none of that has happened. Coronavirus has been Mourinho’s deus ex machina, stopping time, rescuing him from a situation in which he was doomed to fail and then placing him into another world entirely. In this new world, Mourinho might just find his resources and powers replenished. Results were never going to save him… but now, they might.
The Tottenham squad, for a start, is in a much better shape now than it was in March. Kane, Son and Sissoko are all recovered from their injuries. Kane now has weeks of training behind him and Mourinho has been impressed with his attitude and application. Wherever he is in terms of match fitness, none of his opponents will have played a proper football match for 14 weeks either. No longer will Hugo Lloris and Toby Alderweireld hit long balls over Lucas’ head. This time, the ball will stick.
But the most important man of all will be Mourinho himself. When he showed up in November, there was a hope that the sheer size of him, his profile and his achievements, would be enough to rally all the players. Here was a manager who was bigger than the club, a global celebrity, and a far more enthusiastic star of the upcoming Amazon documentary than Pochettino could have been. But in reality, the pieces were so scattered that even the force of Mourinho’s personality could not magnetise them back together.
The world is different now and there is something about this mini-season that might suit Mourinho perfectly. The strangeness should not bother him. He is a manager who thrives on an underdog story and a siege mentality, even when he is in charge of some of the best players in the world. He is not a Jurgen Klopp or even a Pochettino, who builds a team of relentless energy, the players and the crowd sustaining one another. Sheffield United or Wolves might find themselves lost without the support of their fans but Mourinho’s Spurs should not.
Mourinho has managed and won all over the world. He has two Serie A titles, winning in many of those near-empty municipal bowls dotted all over Italy. He has won the Champions League twice, taking his teams all over Europe and coming back with results. Suddenly the bio-secure Premier League — no fans, no mascots, no ball boys — might not feel quite so unusual. The evidence of Spain and Germany’s restarts so far is that the teams with quality and experience are cleaning up. Why shouldn’t Tottenham do the same?
This is why Mourinho is optimistic now, and why the mood at the club has completely changed. The complaints and excuses of March have dissipated, for now. Mourinho is in full motivation mode, geeing up his players, telling them they can win, trying to provide that magnetising force that did not work in the winter.
At times this year, it has felt as if all the unity of the peak Pochettino years has been worn away, with individual agendas taking over from the shared purpose of the past. Players, underpaid compared to their peers, have got bored, got tired or left. The most popular manager in the club’s modern history was sacked. The club, hit by coronavirus, has had to look after itself. But now, in these next nine games, they have a new project to rally around, and a manager to lead them there.
The path ahead is narrow but clear. Beat Manchester United, Sheffield United and Arsenal, and Spurs will make ground on all their rivals. In their other games, their superior quality should be enough. Champions League football for next season is still within reach. And with it, an unlikely vindication for Levy’s appointment and for Mourinho’s continued powers.

Huge first game, we win and the momentum will be massive.
COYS.

 

[Japhet]

Yeah I agree with you. I meant to post the full article but I couldn't from my phone (The Athletic seem to have stopped you doing so), its out of character positive about us from jack tit brooke....so he's probably just doing it to set us up for a fall.

The last article is pretty much how I feel, although I think the Man U game is definitely key. Lose that and there is little hope. Here's the article now anyway:

Jose Mourinho sometimes likes to conjure an atmosphere of gloom — but not right now. Even in private, Mourinho is upbeat and confident about Tottenham’s prospects for the Premier League restart.
This fanless mini-season, a stretch of football no one could even have imagined when Mourinho was appointed back in November, gives him a shot at a vindication that looked almost impossible when Spurs last kicked a ball in March. It is the chance to realign the delicate balancing act that is Tottenham Hotspur.
That is how high the stakes are over the next nine games. This is about more than just whether Tottenham will be in the Champions League next season, whatever that competition will look like. It is about the decision to replace Mauricio Pochettino with Mourinho seven months ago — the biggest gamble of Daniel Levy’s career — and whether it will pay off. Levy does not currently hold a winning hand. Spurs are eighth. But he still has plenty of outs.
Ultimately, it is about Mourinho himself. Remember that he came to Spurs with his reputation damaged. Those third-season collapses and Christmas sackings, in almost identical circumstances at Chelsea and Manchester United, risked staining him as a manager whose methods did not work anymore, whose approach of provoking his players did more harm than good with this generation in youngsters. The mystery of Mourinho’s modern effectiveness has still not been solved.
In March, just before coronavirus stopped all football for three months, it felt as if things were drifting away from Mourinho. Spurs had a good February, grinding out wins, not least against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. But they won none of their last six matches, crashing out of the Champions League and FA Cup, and taking one point from three league games.
After their last league fixture — a 1-1 draw at Burnley — Mourinho savaged Tanguy Ndombele on TV and in the press conference. Spurs “didn’t have a midfield” and it was Ndombele who took the fall. It was classic Mourinho, the same dose of “confrontational leadership” that the young players had rejected in his last two jobs.
This time at Spurs, there were plenty of players who were taken aback by Mourinho’s attack. They were shocked that the manager would be so critical in public. There was a real feeling of unrest in the camp. Out of the cups and drifting down the league, things were only going to get worse, too. Forget about third-season dips, it felt as if this Mourinho tenure might never get off the ground.
This critique of Mourinho was about his approach, not just the results. The results were bad in March but it felt unfair to blame the manager too much. When he took the job in November, he had inherited a harder situation than any he had faced in his career to date.
This was a team that was physically and mentally exhausted by five and a half years of Pochettino. Losing the Champions League final last May was a gut punch. They had been running on empty all season and Pochettino even admitted last month that it was right to sack him when Levy did. Mourinho took over a squad that had aged quicker than anyone had realised and had not been refreshed. He had to get rid of players: Christian Eriksen and Danny Rose left in January and Jan Vertonghen will go this summer. That is 830 games’ worth of Spurs experience heading out of the building.
On top of that, Mourinho faced an injury crisis to the players he had hoped to count on. Harry Kane tore a hamstring at Southampton on New Year’s Day. That same game, Moussa Sissoko, last year’s player of the season, injured knee ligaments, requiring surgery. In February, Son Heung-min broke his arm at Villa Park, so Mourinho’s only option was to run Lucas Moura into the ground as the team’s makeshift centre-forward.
Lucas has played all 26 of Mourinho’s games in charge, starting 23. No image better sums up Mourinho’s reign so far than a long ball being hit from the back, Lucas leaping into the air to try to win the header, only to miss out to a centre-back eight inches taller than him. That is all Spurs had in those final weeks of the regular season. And in the alternative timeline without coronavirus, that would have been the story of April, too, as Spurs’ campaign drifted into nothing.
Had that happened, Mourinho could legitimately have pointed at his circumstances and got himself off the hook because no manager could have walked into this club mid-season, suffered those injuries, and still guided the team to Champions League qualification.
But none of that has happened. Coronavirus has been Mourinho’s deus ex machina, stopping time, rescuing him from a situation in which he was doomed to fail and then placing him into another world entirely. In this new world, Mourinho might just find his resources and powers replenished. Results were never going to save him… but now, they might.
The Tottenham squad, for a start, is in a much better shape now than it was in March. Kane, Son and Sissoko are all recovered from their injuries. Kane now has weeks of training behind him and Mourinho has been impressed with his attitude and application. Wherever he is in terms of match fitness, none of his opponents will have played a proper football match for 14 weeks either. No longer will Hugo Lloris and Toby Alderweireld hit long balls over Lucas’ head. This time, the ball will stick.
But the most important man of all will be Mourinho himself. When he showed up in November, there was a hope that the sheer size of him, his profile and his achievements, would be enough to rally all the players. Here was a manager who was bigger than the club, a global celebrity, and a far more enthusiastic star of the upcoming Amazon documentary than Pochettino could have been. But in reality, the pieces were so scattered that even the force of Mourinho’s personality could not magnetise them back together.
The world is different now and there is something about this mini-season that might suit Mourinho perfectly. The strangeness should not bother him. He is a manager who thrives on an underdog story and a siege mentality, even when he is in charge of some of the best players in the world. He is not a Jurgen Klopp or even a Pochettino, who builds a team of relentless energy, the players and the crowd sustaining one another. Sheffield United or Wolves might find themselves lost without the support of their fans but Mourinho’s Spurs should not.
Mourinho has managed and won all over the world. He has two Serie A titles, winning in many of those near-empty municipal bowls dotted all over Italy. He has won the Champions League twice, taking his teams all over Europe and coming back with results. Suddenly the bio-secure Premier League — no fans, no mascots, no ball boys — might not feel quite so unusual. The evidence of Spain and Germany’s restarts so far is that the teams with quality and experience are cleaning up. Why shouldn’t Tottenham do the same?
This is why Mourinho is optimistic now, and why the mood at the club has completely changed. The complaints and excuses of March have dissipated, for now. Mourinho is in full motivation mode, geeing up his players, telling them they can win, trying to provide that magnetising force that did not work in the winter.
At times this year, it has felt as if all the unity of the peak Pochettino years has been worn away, with individual agendas taking over from the shared purpose of the past. Players, underpaid compared to their peers, have got bored, got tired or left. The most popular manager in the club’s modern history was sacked. The club, hit by coronavirus, has had to look after itself. But now, in these next nine games, they have a new project to rally around, and a manager to lead them there.
The path ahead is narrow but clear. Beat Manchester United, Sheffield United and Arsenal, and Spurs will make ground on all their rivals. In their other games, their superior quality should be enough. Champions League football for next season is still within reach. And with it, an unlikely vindication for Levy’s appointment and for Mourinho’s continued powers.

I read somewhere that Mourinho has said that Solskjaer is out of his depth at Man Utd.. Pretty bold statement considering the way he himself has had his pants pulled down in public already by OGS and then by complete rookie Frank Lampard. Not looking forward to the restart at all in all honesty since what Mourinho has dished up so far has pretty much stunk the place out and the Covid lockdown saved his bacon when things were slipping faster and faster. We'll find out soon enough I guess.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I read somewhere that Mourinho has said that Solskjaer is out of his depth at Man Utd.. Pretty bold statement considering the way he himself has had his pants pulled down in public already by OGS and then by complete rookie Frank Lampard. Not looking forward to the restart at all in all honesty since what Mourinho has dished up so far has pretty much stunk the place out and the Covid lockdown saved his bacon when things were slipping faster and faster. We'll find out soon enough I guess.

It's a shit stir started by a two bob outlet which has somehow gathered legs, yet has not a single quote attributed to it.

 

[Metalhead]

I read somewhere that Mourinho has said that Solskjaer is out of his depth at Man Utd.. Pretty bold statement considering the way he himself has had his pants pulled down in public already by OGS and then by complete rookie Frank Lampard. Not looking forward to the restart at all in all honesty since what Mourinho has dished up so far has pretty much stunk the place out and the Covid lockdown saved his bacon when things were slipping faster and faster. We'll find out soon enough I guess.

Yes, there was some chat about that on the article elsewhere on the site. I'm optimistic over Jose despite being a little disappointed when he was first linked with the job.

 

[Japhet]

It's a shit stir started by a two bob outlet which has somehow gathered legs, yet has not a single quote attributed to it.

Didn't realise that. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[spursfan77]

It's a shit stir started by a two bob outlet which has somehow gathered legs, yet has not a single quote attributed to it.

He’s not a fan of Mourinho and not much of a fan of us.

 

[KikoSpurs]

Who cares about OGS ?? Even Man United fans don't like him.

 

[Cochise]

I think the UTD fans are fine with him, but are only ever going to be a few losses off wanting to sack him. He's not big enough for them and when the going gets rough, they (and the media for that matter) will point to his relative inexperience and demand someone like Poch. He will need to get a trophy next season or they will turn.